Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to ans

More than five hundred short line railroads existed in the United States at the industry's height, and Pennsylvania had more than any other state. The history o